The green-coloured Pure Destruction Divine Flame surged over, burning the space with a slight distortion and dispelling the gloomy cold power around the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin.
“Wow…”
A mysterious power escaped from the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin, driving dozens of white bones of the Dead Race Ancestors to arrange themselves according to a kind of star-track traces, surprisingly forming a layer of invisible power that resisted the Pure Destruction Divine Flame.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation level, mobilising the Pure Destruction divine Flame was able to refine some Thousand Lines Sacred Artifacts to the point of melting, yet it could not help dozens of bones.
From this, it could be seen that those bones must be quite extraordinary, most likely divine bones.
“The power of the doppelganger is still too weak.”
Zhang Ruochen retracted his arms, then, pointing to the sky with the index finger of his right hand, a powerful spiritual force exploded out, rushing out of the Qiankun Realm and triggering the Pure Destruction Divine Flame in his Qi Sea.
In the next moment, the clouds above Zhang Ruochen’s head dispersed, and a waterfall of Divine Flame descended from the sky, surging towards the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin in a steady stream.
Seeing this scene, Princess Baili was quite surprised and dissuaded, “Sovereign, would you be too extreme in doing so, what if you enrage her?”
“There are times when one has to use extreme means.”Zhang Ruochen said.
After roughly three hours of calcination, a cold and chilly Qi energy surged out of the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin like a huge wave that turned the sky.
“Boom.”
Zhang Ruochen and Princess Baili were like two fallen leaves in the wind as they were shocked and thrown backward tens of miles. The force was so shocking that they were unable to control their forms.
After Zhang Ruochen steadied his footsteps, he once again stared in the direction of the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin, and his eyes fiercely shrunk, only to see that a stunningly beautiful woman, who was radiating radiant moonlight all over her body, stepped out of the flames with elegant footsteps.
She had a slender figure, her skin was as if it was carved from immortal jade, there was a blood moon mark on her brow, and a cold and chilling power flowed through her body, causing ten thousand miles in every direction to be turned into an ice field.
The Pure Destruction Divine Flame was engulfed by the wind and snow, and it all dissipated.
“Blood Moon Ghost King …… no …… you are the woman in the coffin ……” said Zhang Ruochen.
The woman under the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was indeed the Blood Moon Ghost King, however, the aura radiating from her body was many times more powerful than the Blood Moon Ghost King.
Zhang Ruochen and Princess Baili both possessed the strength to fight against late stage True Saint Saints, but, facing her, they felt a huge oppression.
There was a powerful force that was pressing them to kneel and bow.
Beads of sweat continued to emerge from Zhang Ruochen and Princess Baili’s bodies as they both struggled to support themselves, not wanting to kneel down and bow to any living being.
With every step forward taken by the Blood Moon Ghost King, the pressure on Zhang Ruochen and Princess Baili doubled. The other party wasn’t using power to suppress them, but rather, they were suppressing their will.
“Meow!”
Princess Baili’s legs trembled, and a cat cry came out of her mouth as she turned into her original form, transforming into a small white cat with flowing colours.
In the end, the Blood Moon Ghost King did not continue forward, stopping a hundred feet away from Zhang Ruochen and Princess Baili, his voice clear and cold, “Your wills are both very firm, it can be said that you are unyielding, or at least have the qualifications of a Great Saint.”
Zhang Ruochen let out a slight sigh of relief and said, “If you go any further, we may not be able to sustain ourselves.”
“Just because the heart of a Great Sage is not subjugated to a human, it does not mean that it can be subjugated to a god. Going further, the pressure you face may not be able to withstand even a Great Saint.”The Blood Moon Ghost King said.
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was immensely shaken as he said, “You’re a god?”
“A hundred thousand years ago, my divine power and life force were almost exhausted, and I could only enter the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin to fall asleep, and it is only now that I have recovered some of it.”
After a pause, the Blood Moon Ghost King added, “You are the first Saint who dares to burn a God with divine fire.”
It was actually really a God.
Not to mention Zhang Ruochen, even a Great Saint would probably be scared silly.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen was also feeling cold hands and feet, and it would be a lie to say that he wasn’t scared at all. A female corpse lying inside a coffin and a living god standing in front of him were two completely different concepts.
Zhang Ruochen endeavoured to suppress the negative emotions in his heart and maintain his composure as he bowed and saluted the opposite side of the room, saying in an unassuming manner, “I have no intention of offending the gods, only ……”
“You don’t need to be so fearful, the fact that you dared to use divine fire to burn a deity shows that you have the heart to rebel against the gods and the courage to do so. This is also the reason why I separated a divine thought and came out to see you.”The Blood Moon Ghost King said.
That goddess’s divine body was still lying in the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin absorbing the life qi and heaven and earth holy qi scattered by the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood. Obviously, it was just one of her divine thoughts that flew out and attached itself to the Blood Moon Ghost King.
The Blood Moon Ghost King continued, “I already know the reason why you want to dialogue with me. I promise you that I can step in and help you once when you are in need. However, you must also promise me a condition.”
“What condition?”Zhang Ruochen asked.
The Blood Moon Ghost King said, “After this matter is over, accompany me on a trip to the Celestial Court Realm and do one thing for me.”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly stunned and said, “With my current cultivation level, I’m afraid that what I can do, you can do with a single thought. You still need my help?”
“All beings in heaven and earth have a value that belongs to them. Your value is greater than you can imagine.”The Blood Moon Ghost King said.
Zhang Ruochen pondered for a moment and said, “Alright, I promise you.”
A Saint and a God, exchanging one thing, no matter how harsh that thing of hers was, in Zhang Ruochen’s opinion, it was quite a bargain.
The Blood Moon Ghost King said, “You’d better think it over, once you agree to it, it’s as if you’re making an oath to a god, and you definitely can’t regret it.”
Zhang Ruochen realised that what this goddess was asking him to do, I’m afraid it wasn’t as simple as he thought, so he asked, “What exactly is it?”
“I can’t tell you right now, you’ll naturally understand when we go to the Celestial Court Realm.”The Blood Moon Ghost King added, “I don’t really like to force people, you can choose not to agree with me.”
Zhang Ruochen solemnly said, “I promise you. However, to make it clear in advance, I only represent myself, not the entire Qiankun Realm.”
“I’ll make a note of it!”
The Blood Moon Ghost King turned around and marched towards the Sun Moon Crystal Coffin.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Wait a minute, that Moon God in your legend?”
“How can there be a god who gives herself a title? In the end, she is whatever god others call her.”After saying this, a strand of divine light flew out of the Blood Moon Ghost King’s ghostly body and rushed into the Sun Moon Crystal Coffin.
In an instant, that powerful divine might disappeared.
Princess Baili changed back into her human form and respectfully bowed to the Sun Moon Crystal Coffin before she was saying to Zhang Ruochen, “She must be the legendary Moon God from the Broad Cold Realm.”
“Hmm.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded.
If, she was not the Moon God, she would have definitely denied it outright just now, instead of saying a yes but no.
Zhang Ruochen walked over to the Blood Moon Ghost King’s body and asked, “Just now, when the Moon God occupied your ghost body, did she tell you what exactly your relationship with her was?”
“A thought.”The Blood Moon Ghost King said.
Zhang Ruochen sucked in a breath of cool air and said, “One thought gave birth to you? If she gave birth to 100 million thoughts, wouldn’t she be able to give birth to 100 million strong people like you?”
“How could it be that simple? The more thoughts you have, the greater the burden, and it will affect your cultivation instead. God’s thoughts, once they are independent, all have a special reason and purpose.”The Blood Moon Ghost King said coldly.
Zhang Ruochen said, “What is her purpose in making you independent?”
“To bring her out of the netherworld.”
The Bloodmoon Ghost King explained again, “In the netherworld, there is no life qi at all, and unable to absorb it, she will fall into a permanent slumber until her divine power is exhausted and she dies. Even while sleeping, the divine power will be lost, only, it will be lost very slowly.”
Obviously, just now, the Moon God had told the Blood Moon Ghost King something, letting the Blood Moon Ghost King know about his mission.
That mission, of course, was no longer important now.
Zhang Ruochen’s doppelganger withdrew from the Qiankun Realm and became one with his main body, going all out to cultivate, wanting to impact the Thorough Earth Realm as early as possible.
Over the past year, the Buddha Emperor’s Sharizon had released Buddha Qi and spiritual power every moment, integrating it into Zhang Ruochen’s body, causing Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation to increase by ten times the degree of a cultivator of the same realm.
It was because of this reason that even though he was drinking and travelling daily, his cultivation degree was still no slower than those Realm Sons, reaching the peak of the Xuan Huang Realm.
“Knock knock.”?
The sound of a knock on the door rang out.
Immediately after, Qin Yutong’s voice, sounded outside the door, softly saying, “Your Highness, the Twelfth Master has already arrived at the Phoenix Dance Palace, and has set up a grand banquet, asking me to fetch you over.”
Zhang Ruochen opened his eyes, a smile appearing on his face as he said in his heart, “The Twelfth Imperial Uncle didn’t come to pay his respects to me, but he asked me to go and pay my respects to him, and just after arriving, he wants to give me a hard time, he really isn’t willing to surrender the power in his hands.”
Whoever went to see the other first would appear inferior.
Ming Jiang Wang personally rushed to Sacred Brightness City, he already appeared to be inferior to Zhang Ruochen, and when he arrived at the Phoenix Dance Palace, he naturally wanted to take back the city.
“Alright! I’ll go with you to see the Twelfth Imperial Uncle.”Zhang Ruochen said.
The direct members of the Imperial Clan were already few and far between, so it was all the more important to unite and be united against the outside world instead of continuing to fight internally.
As a junior, Zhang Ruochen decided to give in first, leaving some face for King Ming Jiang.
If, however, King Ming Jiang didn’t appreciate it or wanted to deal with Zhang Ruochen, then don’t blame Zhang Ruochen for being rude to him next.
Respect was all mutual.
Qin Yutong let out a slight sigh of relief, before she came, she was really a little afraid that both of them would be too strong and neither of them would refuse to give in, in that case, there would be no way to continue the negotiation.
In the Phoenix Dance Palace, there was a temple built in the centre of the Spirit Lake, where the lights were brightly lit, there were beautiful maids dancing, and there was also the pleasant sound of the zither and xiao coming out.
Under Qin Yutong’s leadership, Zhang Ruochen walked into into the temple in the centre of the lake and finally met Emperor Ming’s twelfth brother, King Ming Jiang.
“Greetings, Your Highness.”
Granny Baisu walked forward and bowed to Zhang Ruochen.
“Greetings, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
In the temple, all the cultivators under the Saint realm also bowed down to Zhang Ruochen, looking incredibly respectful.
However, King Ming Jiang and those Saint realm figures who followed King Ming Jiang were still sitting on top of their seats, and had no intention of coming forward to salute.
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